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**Minimal Scheme Implementation for use as an Extension Language**
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http://synthcode.com/wiki/chibi-scheme
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Chibi-Scheme is a very small library intended for use as an extension
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and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for
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lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap
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allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously in different OS threads.
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The default repl language contains all bindings from
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[R7RS small](http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/R7RSHomePage),
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available explicitly as the `(scheme small)` library.
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Support for additional languages such as JavaScript, Go, Lua and Bash
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are planned for future releases. Scheme is chosen as a substrate
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because its first class continuations and guaranteed tail-call
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optimization makes implementing other languages easy.
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Chibi-Scheme is known to work on **32** and **64-bit** Linux,
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FreeBSD and OS X, Plan9, Windows (using Cygwin), iOS, and
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[Emscripten](https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site).
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To build on most platforms just run `make && make test`. This will
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provide a shared library *libchibi-scheme*, as well as a sample
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*chibi-scheme* command-line repl. You can then run
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sudo make install
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to install the binaries and libraries. You can optionally specify a
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**PREFIX** for the installation directory:
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make PREFIX=/path/to/install/
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sudo make PREFIX=/path/to/install/ install
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By default files are installed in **/usr/local**.
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If you want to try out chibi-scheme without installing, be sure to set
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`LD_LIBRARY_PATH` so it can find the shared libraries.
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For more detailed documentation, run `make doc` and see the generated
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*doc/chibi.html*.
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